Apraxia
Evidence-based neurology checklist on apraxia: Definition There is impairment of the voluntary performance of skilled movements The impairment is not caused by specific motor weakness They can be superimposed on other movement disorders There is usually impaired tool-use pantomime or communicative…
Definition
- There is impairment of the voluntary performance of skilled movements
- The impairment is not caused by specific motor weakness
- They can be superimposed on other movement disorders
- There is usually impaired tool-use pantomime or communicative gestures
Exclusion features
Major apraxias
Other apraxias
Causes
Clinical features
Single gestures used for testing apraxia
Multi-step gestures used for testing apraxia
References
- Zadikoff C, Lang AE. Apraxia in movement disorders. Brain 2005; 128:1480-1497.
- Petreska B, Adriani M, Blanke O, Billard AG. Apraxia: a review. Prog Brain Res 2007; 164:61-83.
- Leiguarda R, Lees AJ, Merello M, Starkstein S, Marsden CD. The nature of apraxia in corticobasal degeneration. JNNP 1994; 57:455-459.
- Wheaton LA, Hallett M. Ideomotor apraxia: a review. J Neurol Sci 2007; 260:1-10.
- Lepore FE, Duvoisin RC. "Apraxia" of eyelid opening: an involuntary levator inhibition. Neurology 1985; 35:423-427.
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